Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Exodus 16:16-18, 33; Deuteronomy 8:3, 16). It fell for the first time after the eighth encampment in the desert of Sin, and was ...

skin or leather binding it to his loins. ’Addereth twice occurs with the epithet “hairy” (Genesis 25:25; Zechariah 13:4, R.V.). ...

MAOCH compressed, the father of Achish, king of Gath (1 Samuel 27:2). Called also Maachah (1 Kings 2:39). MAON habitation, a to ...

where marble of various colours is found, especially in the province of Hamadan Susiana.” The marble of Solomon’s architectural ...

Ephesus when Paul wrote him during his second imprisonment (2 Timothy 4:11). He then disappears from view. MARKET-PLACE any pla ...

“quadrans” (12:42, rendered “a farthing”), “centurion” (15:39, 44, 45). He only twice quotes from the Old Testament (1:2; 15:28) ...

patriarchal age (Genesis 16:1-4; 22:21-24; 28:8, 9; 29:23-30, etc.). Polygamy was acknowledged in the Mosaic law and made the ba ...

one smoking mound, pieces of the thin bread, bent together, serving for spoons when necessary. After the first circle have satis ...

businesses;’ to Mary life ‘was rather the flow of one spirit.’ Martha was Petrine, Mary was Johannine. The one was a well-meanin ...

(Matthew 2). There for thirty years Mary, the wife of Joseph the carpenter, resides, filling her own humble sphere, and ponderin ...

“Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.” This is the last record regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to J ...

MASCHIL instructing, occurs in the title of thirteen Psalms (32, 42, 44, etc.). It denotes a song enforcing some lesson of wisd ...

MATTANAH a gift, a station of the Israelites (Numbers 21:18, 19) between the desert and the borders of Moab, in the Wady Waleh. ...

MATTHEW gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Ca ...

then the vernacular of the inhabitants of Palestine), and afterwards translated into Greek, either by Matthew himself or by some ...

MATTHIAS gift of God. Acts 1:23. MATTITHIAH gift of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Jeduthun (1 Chronicles 25:3, 21). (2.) Th ...

dipping their fingers into one large dish heaped with a mixture of boiled rice and other grain and meat. But in the time of our ...

sacrifice of blood. It was presented every day with the burnt-offering (Exodus 29:40, 41), and consisted of flour or of cakes pr ...

chief, who at length were brought under the Assyrian yoke (2 Kings 17:6). From this subjection they achieved deliverance, and fo ...

and human, that in his work he might represent man, and be capable of rendering obedience to the law and satisfying the claims o ...